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How Media-Hungry Terrorists Pulled Off the Wildest Hijacking of All Time

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The TWA Hostage Crisis was an epic 17-day shitshow that whiplashed between abject terror and black comedy. As a young foreign correspondent, I got to see it all firsthand.

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